Several thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked a major intersection in central Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against efforts to force them to enlist in the Israeli military like their secular compatriots. There were simultaneous disturbances in other parts of the city,…[Continue Reading...]
The Israeli army revealed on 21 August that only about 70 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men reported to military induction centers since Tel Aviv issued the first batch of draft orders to the Haredi sector last month in a bid to overcome…[Continue Reading...]
Protesters from Israel's ultra-Orthodox sector clashed with police on Wednesday, with violence breaking out as they rallied at a recruitment center in Jerusalem. This comes after Rabbi Asher Deutsch of the "Committee to Save the World of Torah" called for…[Continue Reading...]
Dozens of extreme ultra-Orthodox rioters broke into the Tel Hashomer army base on Tuesday, protesting against draft orders that have been distributed to the sector. An illegal protest took place near the base, the Israel Defense Forces' main recruitment office,…[Continue Reading...]
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party urged potential conscripts Wednesday to ignore a call-up from the Israel Defense Forces, as political divisions over the controversial issue showed signs of widening. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi, have traditionally been exempt from military service so…[Continue Reading...]
Haredi children were brought into the home of a convicted sex offender who posed an immediate danger to them, Meirav Ben Ari, from the Yesh Atid Party told the Knesset Education Committee on Monday. The kids were pupils in a…[Continue Reading...]
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the IDF have agreed together to issue draft orders to haredim on a massive scale sometime in the next month. A statement from the Defense Ministry did not give the number of draft orders which…[Continue Reading...]
Rabbi Menachem Yaveh, 51, was arrested this week on suspicion of leading a cult in Jerusalem and sexually abusing boys who were part of the cult. Yaveh is a student of Rabbi Eliezer Berland and father of 17 children. At…[Continue Reading...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem on Sunday during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service. The landmark decision last week ordering the…[Continue Reading...]
Police arrested 28 people from a Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox sect suspected of extorting advertising in their newspaper from big companies. Police said the suspects threatened executives of private and state-owned companies into placing ads in Hapeles, an ultra-Orthodox newspaper associated with…[Continue Reading...]
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